The Printing Technique Charged Like a Fierce Tiger; Meng Sanyi Plotted to Take a Master

Recently, Great Rui's north had been a storm-tossed sea. Aside from the Grasslands war spilling into its homeland, the greatest change had been the swift spread of the Movable-Type Printing Technique.

Even the Meng Clan, who had anticipated it long ago, had never expected this printing method to spread so quickly! In such a short time, it had already slipped beyond their control!

Ever since Hua She's first book had been successfully printed, the Movable-Type Printing Technique had officially entered the world. From then on, it could no longer be stopped. More than a dozen privately established Book-Printing Halls sprang up within and beyond Daizhou City.

Though the Meng Clan did everything they could to suppress and control it, they still could not stamp it out. At most, they could keep the Book-Printing Halls inside Daizhou City in check. Beyond that range, even if they wished to act, they were constrained by their own limited manpower. Not to mention that the laws of the court stood there; however powerful a noble clan might be, it could not stretch its hand too far.

Besides, Daizhou City lay on the frontier and had always been a city of commerce. Countless merchants came and went from north and south. These merchants had always been a group with well-informed ears and keen noses. How could something as significant as the Movable-Type Printing Technique possibly be kept from them?

Before long, many merchants learned the details and saw the enormous business opportunity within. They immediately began mobilizing their own resources.

Thus, news of the Movable-Type Printing Technique became impossible to block. Even among the Meng Clan's servants and retainers, many spies had slipped in, while others had been bought with heavy sums.

Still, merchants of this era knew that gods watched from three feet above